Enclycpedia entry about Neo-Latin Online

Encyclopedia entry about Neo-Latin Journals

Encyclopedia entry about Neo-Latin Book Series

Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies: Paul Oskar Kristeller

Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies: Jozef IJsewijn

Encycploedia entry about Neo-Latin Letters of dedication

Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies: Henry De Vocht

During the Early Modern Period, every educated person knew Latin, and possibly several other languages, besides his or her mother tongue. Due to this widespread multilingualism the question arose which language to use for which context or purpose. The ‘battle of languages’ was not only fought on a theoretical plane but also exercised its eff…[Read more]

Acta selecta van de studiedag voor Neolatijn te Antwerpen, Museum Plantin-Moretus op 17 december 2004.

This communication offers a brief history of the dedicatory epistle, i.e. the public act by which a book is dedicated, openly and permanently, to a specific person or group. The origin is traced to Graeco-Roman Antiquity, where we find the first dedicatory epistles in the work of Archimedes. The practice became well established by Late Antiquity,…[Read more]

Human nature and moral responsibility in the work of Juan Luis Vives

Polyglotte publicaties in de vroegmoderne tijd

Biographical sketch of Maarten van Dorp (1485-1525) and his role in the teaching of logic at the University of Leuven

Essay about the history of Neo-Latin Studies, published in Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World.

Study of bilingual editions with English translations of Terence printed between 1473 and 1640.

Discussies over humanisme vs. scholastiek tussen Maarten Van Dorp, Desiderius Erasmus en Thomas More.

We leven in een digitale wereld. Zelfs wie niet elke wakkere minuut doorbrengt in het gezelschap van een smartphone of een tablet, ontsnapt er niet aan: wie winkelt, bankiert, de trein of bus neemt, met de auto rijdt, tv kijkt, … produceert of consumeert, bewust of onbewust, digitale data. Ook bibliotheken hebben ondertussen, tot spijt van wie h…[Read more]

Catalogue entry about Erycius Puteanus, Iuventutis Belgicae laudatio in qua melioris naturae & disciplinae imago (Leuven, Gerard Rivius, 1607).

Catalogue entry about Erycius Puteanus, Comus, sive Phagesiposia Cimmeria. Somnium (Leuven, Gerard Rivius, 1608)

Catalogue entry about Catonis disticha moralia cum scholiis Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami (Lyon, Jean & François Frellon, 1539).